From Meat Eaters World News Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, this is Cowell's Week in Review with Ryan Cal-A.

Here's Cal.

Residents of a small mountain community in British Columbia have been scratching their heads about a local deer wearing a high-vis vest.

The safety first servid has been videoed and photographed in and around the town of McBride,

but even though only about a thousand people live in the area, no one seems to know

how a deer ended up wearing a zip-up day glow vest. A local BC conservation officer has declined to

speculate on how the jacket ended up on the animal, but in the understated humor so typical

of our Canadian neighbors, said, quote, deer are not predisposed to wearing clothes.

That might be true, but it wouldn't be the first time a do-gooder tried to keep a deer safe

by dressing it like a construction worker. Back in 2020, a deer was spotted in Indiana,

wearing what appeared to be a hunter's safety vest. It turned out that someone had illegally

adopted the fawn as a pet and put the vest on it to keep it safe from hunters. I would imagine that

something like that is what's happening here. The deer is yet to be seen again, which makes me

wonder if it found its way back home. And yes, if you can't tell from the tone of my voice,

home is in quotes.

Whoever did that to the deer is likely staying mum

because it's illegal to own wildlife without the proper permits.

It's also illegal in BC to worry, exhaust, fatigue, annoy, plague, pester,

tease or torment animals, which seems likely to have

happened at some point between vest-less deer and Bob the Builder Deer.

In any case, the vest will probably cause more problems than it solves.

While it might stay the trigger finger of a hunter, it's more likely to get snagged on something and get the deer stuck.

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